broody hens

How many eggs have you had a single hen successfully hatch? I have three broody girls and no rooster. I bought some BCM hatchling eggs and moved the girls to a new coop (bad experience hatching in the main coop). One one of the three broody girls will sit on the 17 eggs...the other two just...

Hello! I am looking into getting a broody hen since they will be able to teach the chicks how to be chickens, forage, and how to evade predators. I've read silkies are the best broody hens but are also one of the least predator savvy breeds and they prefer to sleep on the bottom of the coop...

Hi All! Our broody French Black Copper Marans hen, Rowena, has been sitting on stone eggs for ten days now and is super broody. She is a year old and has been broody about six times already. Since we don't have a rooster, we've had to break her, but this time we thought bit might be fun to let...

I just have a few quick questions about my possibly broody hen. My hen is a year old EE and has been laying very consistently. Today I found quite a few plucked breast feathers in the nesting box and identified which hen was doing it. She is showing no other signs of broodiness as of yet. She...

My hens keep going broody and beginning to sit on fertile eggs in our egg boxes within our coop, as desired. But they continue to swap to other nest boxes at random points within the incubation process, and abandoning live eggs. Sometimes they even swap back again, furthermore abandoning their...

Lots of people ask me about the things I know a lot about so I've decided ot make a thread where you can ask me questions about any of these things: Broody hens Hatching Helping to hatch Raising chicks Saving weak chicks Sexing silkies Raising chickens (specifically bantams) in general Any...

There are a lot of different methods of incubating eggs. When I decide to incubate, I personally have chosen to stick to the recommended temperature and humidity recommended online as well as what it instructs for my specific incubator. Currently, I have a Nuture Right 360 that I have hatched...

I have two broody silkie hens! They are sitting on about a dozen eggs. One went broody the 1rst of April and another went broody a few days after. They should hatch today. Princess Peach is the top one the lower one is Mrs. Peeps A Lot

I'm interested in how long a broody hen cares for her chicks! When do they "push them out of the nest?" For my broodies, it happens abruptly. Do your hens slowly wean their chicks or just peck them away one day? Please vote on the poll and reply with your comments!

We have two hens in our garage that have been broody for a little over one week. This morning they were both in their own nesting boxes but when we came to check on them around noon they were both laying on the same clutch of eggs. We quickly separated them and got them in the right boxes and...

I’ve had laying hens and an occasional rooster on and off for the last six or seven years... But recently we got an extraordinarily broody hen and decided to let her sit on her small batch of three eggs. We currently do have a rooster. He mounts most of the hens every morning so I figured that...

I have two broody silkie hens. 9 eggs under them. Their hatch date is the 26th. How will this work? Will they share the chicks, or split them, or what? Are there any dangers I should be warned about? I have never had double broodies before and don't know what to think.

I keep my roosters and hens separated between two seperate pens. I have four different breeds. I just paired them up last week. Three of the four hens are nesting, they share the same coop(4'×8') the run is a ten by ten if that matters. My question is, Is it fine to have several hens nesting in...

Hie guys! I want to add two new hens to my backyard flock but I want hens that are most likely to go broody. Any advice on which chicken breeds that I should buy that are the most broody ones.

Hello! :frow My flock is currently driving me insane...they’ve almost all been broody at least once, but my Bantam Cochins & Silkies 2+ times, so far. :lol: Well, I’ve incubated lots of eggs this year... I love incubating eggs in an incubator, because it’s more "hands-on" I’ve found that I...

I have 3 muscovy that have become so broody that some of their hatchlings were left to fend for themselves once they hopped out of the nest. I took them in and put them with Stevie, one that i had to take in due to health issues. The nest was in a kiddie pool so I am wondering if that was a bad...

Ok I am bragging just a little (as though I had something to do with it) but my two white cochin broodies have successfully adopted 14 three-week old chicks! They’re now fully integrated into the full flock and doing well. Based on what I’ve read here, it seemed like a crap shoot, but hey why...

my broody hen has been sitting on her eggs for four days now and she left to eat and got confused and sat on some different eggs instead of her batch usually I collect eggs throughout the day but today I got busy and it slipped my mind . When I went to check on her she was on different eggs and...

can I buy hatching eggs and give them to a broody chicken to hatch? Also, should I make a nesting box for her separate from the coop? I have a dog travel crate in the barn that would work very well.